Voynich Manuscript as a charlatan's prop

[Rafal]

If that were the case, what we would surely see is an image of the supposed doctor with a container of urine in his hand, or taking the pulse of a sick person in bed. And the image of the zodiac man would certainly be present. We see none of that in the Voynich.

Well, it is a point. But...

First, we have the doctor with urine bottle at the page f85r2

But the biggest problem with Voynich imagery is that it is very unconventional and hard to interpret. We can look at the plants but we cannot recognize them. We can look at astronomical diagrams but we are not sure what they exactly represent. And bathing ladies are a total mystery.

My feeling is that it was made so on purpose. The author wanted to make something bizarre, looking like a medical manual but a strange medical manual, unique and different from the others.

Zodiac Man is just too common, unoriginal and boring to find its place in Voynich Manuscript.

It doesn't offer any secret, rare knowledge. People who come to charlatans are often disappointed with professional doctors who cannot help them in their cases. So a charlatan has to offer something different.